Tennis Racket Quotes

#1. To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.

Adrian Smith

#2. I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

Gabriela Sabatini

#3. Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

Michael Bamberger

#4. Matthew hereby declares that Katherine Galloway is retroactively responsible for all embarrassing and painful incidents that have occurred in his life to date. Including, but not limited to, that time he broke his own nose with a tennis racket in eighth grade. KATHERINE'S FAULT.

Lauren James

#5. The hell with her; I wouldn't go back. But wouldn't I? What about later on? Keeping the thought of her out of that bleak hotbox of a room was going to be like trying to dam a river with a tennis racket.

Charles Williams

#6. You seem a lot like me," he said. "You don't gawk at me like I'm a freak."
"I'll kick anyone who does."
"I think you already did. Or at least smacked him with a tennis racket."
-Alexander and Raven, Vampire Kisses, Pg.127, The Beginning

Ellen Schreiber

#7. Revenge is a dish best served by a tennis racket

Josh Stern

#8. I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.

Matthew Ashford

#9. When I started out jumping around with a tennis racket, I never thought I would end up on a list of the best guitar players in the world. It makes me feel proud of the hard work I've put in.

Gary Hoey

#10. I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

Tullian Tchividjian

#11. Out on the street, you never know what you're getting, and suddenly two days later you're beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel, quoting Poe. You don't want that for your kid. You really don't want that.

Johnny Depp

#12. You take lessons on how to better swing a golf club or a tennis racket, or to learn the proper techniques for shooting a basketball or throwing a curve ball, but what about running?

Danny Abshire

#13. I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

Jon Bon Jovi

#14. I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

Jonathan Pryce

#15. I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

Rick Springfield

#16. A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar!

Isaac

#17. I killed a squirrel once with a car. Twice with a tennis racket.

Anthony Jeselnik

#18. With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had visions of celebrating at the summit of Africa's highest peak by hitting a couple balls to see how far they might fly in the thin air at 19,341 feet.

Don Yaeger

#19. I let go of the pump as well now. I registered a sense of fatigue. And regret. It was the same fatigue and regret you feel when you miss a tennis ball. You were planning to smash it, but you swing hard and miss; the arm holding the racket meets no resistance and lashes wildly through the air.

Herman Koch

#20. With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.

Mario Andretti

#21. There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.

Cyril Connolly

#22. My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

Novak Djokovic

#23. I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

Jason Statham

#24. I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

Pete Sampras

#25. Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis ... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away.

Rod Laver

#26. I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.

Isaac Asimov

#27. Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.

David Lynch

#28. America and Americans always rise to the occasion. If we say we are going to stamp out hunger, I believe we will.

Christie Brinkley

#29. Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard.

Craig Brown

#30. It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is ... to live forever.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#31. I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years ... I love hitting tennis balls.

Andy Roddick

#32. When you revealed that the Rani was in fact the Nagi," Charlie said, "the players collectively pissed their pants."
"I'd rather they creamed their jeans.

Walter Jon Williams

#33. She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists.

Virginia Wade